Who will attend ATypI Stanford (May 27-30)

Dave Crossland
Dave Crossland Posts: 1,513
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I just booked my trip to ATypI Stanford 2026 at the end of May! :)

I'll arrive in the afternoon the day before (26th) and stay at the Westin through Sunday 31st.
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  • Thomas Phinney
    Thomas Phinney Posts: 3,096
    I will be there!
  • John Butler
    John Butler Posts: 351
    The US contains one third of one billion humans. Stanford is in a deep blue city in a blue state. California is even making secessionist noises these days. If you feel somehow threatened by the current occupant of the White House—yawn—traveling to Stanford is a more defiant gesture than avoiding our country altogether. I write this as a proud resident of a red state who would be perfectly content to be rid of California. There are far worse dangers you could face than traveling to California. You will not regret it.
  • Dave Crossland
    Dave Crossland Posts: 1,513
    John, you may be unaware that Simon and I are British, and while I'm a USA resident, Simon is in England; and moreover the UK press has a good deal of coverage of Brits getting deported who had been traveling in and out of the USA for many years without prior problems. 
  • Mark Simonson
    Mark Simonson Posts: 1,771
    I plan to be there.
  • James Montalbano
    James Montalbano Posts: 133
    edited December 7
    I will not be attending. I'm still waiting for ATypI to refund my 2001 Copenhagen conference fee, since I was unable to fly out of NYC due to the 911 attack.
  • Peter Bain
    Peter Bain Posts: 24
    James, I don't know or recall any details of your situation 1/4 century ago, but I was able to attend København in 2001, and flew out of JFK Airport, IIRC. Won't be traveling to Stanford or Sharjah, but hope it is good experience for those in either/both places.
  • James Montalbano
    James Montalbano Posts: 133
    edited December 10
    Bless your heart Peter Bain
  • Peter Constable
    Peter Constable Posts: 271
    I'm wondering why no communication was sent to ATypI members announcing either of the 2026 conferences. At least, I never saw any announcement; I just heard from others (e.g., this thread).
  • Joana Correia
    Joana Correia Posts: 2
    I am sad I will miss it, but I will be visiting the USA for the other two big type conferences! Hope to connect with friends and colleagues on those ones.
  • Dave Crossland
    Dave Crossland Posts: 1,513
    I thought that I was enrolled as an ATypI Member as a byproduct of attending the main annual event every year; but I now just found that I could no longer log into https://atypi.org/inside-atypi/membership-account/ so I signed up for a 'new' account using the same email I've always used. Possibly this happened to you too, Peter.
  • Peter Bain
    Peter Bain Posts: 24
    Dave, I just logged into the member's section and you're showing as active. My renewal is coming up soon. I believe ATypI has kept membership dues separate from conference fees, but maybe that hasn't been a fixed rule, not sure.
  • John Hudson
    John Hudson Posts: 3,559
    ...the UK press has a good deal of coverage of Brits getting deported who had been traveling in and out of the USA for many years without prior problems. 
    And today this: Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan.
  • Simon Cozens
    Simon Cozens Posts: 819
    And more:


    3. 

    Mandatory Social Media:

    In order to comply with the January 2025 Executive Order 14161 (Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats), CBP is adding social media as a mandatory data element for an ESTA application. The data element will require ESTA applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years.

    4. 

    High Value Data Elements:

    To comply with the January 2025 E.O. (14161), and the April 4, 2025, Memorandum Updating All Forms to Collect Baseline Biographic Data, CBP will add several “high value data fields” to the ESTA application, when feasible. This is in addition to the information already collected in the ESTA application.

    The high value data fields include:

    a. Telephone numbers used in the last five years;

    b. Email addresses used in the last ten years;

    c. IP addresses and metadata from electronically submitted photos;

    d. Family member names (parents, spouse, siblings, children);

    e. Family number telephone numbers used in the last five years;

    f. Family member dates of birth;

    g. Family member places of birth;

    h. Family member residencies;

    i. Biometrics—face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris;

    j. Business telephone numbers used in the last five years;

    k. Business email addresses used in the last ten years.
  • Nick Shinn
    Nick Shinn Posts: 2,319
    Gotta fill up those “data centers.”

    Doing business with US corporations is getting more complicated (and onerous), with all the compliance requirements. 
    Ironically, many of these are legacy DEI requirements; the new wave will be totalitarian invasions of privacy.

    Also, in multiplying the data-providing obligations of suppliers, enshittified corporations are transforming suppliers into virtual employees. The performance-based tranches into which content suppliers are divided has the same effect.

    Now, in order to get the big bucks from big business, suppliers are being required to “onboad” and “train”(!) to use their data systems, providing all kinds of banking information etc. I miss the good old days when one could just send them an invoice and get a cheque back in the mail—even if that did take several months.

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